Women's poetry [[electronic resource] /] / Jo Gill

• Autore: Gill Jo <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.0099287
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism; American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism; Poetry - Women authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Included bibliographical references (p. 221-223) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Prologue; Introduction; chapter 1 - Self-Reflexivity; chapter 2 - Performance; chapter 3 - Private Voices; chapter 4 - Embodied Language; chapter 5 - Public Speech; chapter 6 - Poetry and Place; chapter 7 - Experimentation and Form; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Women's Poetry offers a thoroughgoing thematic study of key texts, poets and issues, analysing commonalities and differences across diverse writers, periods, and forms. The book is alert, throughout, to the diversity of women's poetry. Close readings of selected texts are combined with a discussion of key theories and critical practices, and students
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's poetry
• ISBN: 1-281-08922-2; 1-78034-356-6; 9786611089221; 0-7486-2993-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818594703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Edinburgh critical guides to literature.